Supported Projects
Our community of awardees spans the entirety of the United States. Learn more about the organizations that make up our awardee community.
We support interdisciplinary projects that explore the intersection of science and the rest of culture. We power programs that connect science to peoples’ existing interests and identities, with a focus on broadening participation in science.
Science in Vivo “meets people where they are” by bringing science to unexpected venues.
The Science in Vivo project fosters the integration of science into settings where people are not expecting it. The overall goals of the project are to inspire experimentation with — and advance the understanding of — such work. Over the course of three years the project will support teams at 24 sites that bring science experiences to “where the people are.” Nine of these sites will host an observational visit from other science engagement professionals, enabling them to better understand the dynamics at work in these settings. The project incorporates several mechanisms for sharing findings, including the annual Science Events Summit.
The MIT Museum engages the wider community with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s science, technology and other areas of scholarship in ways that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Science and technology museum cultivating meaningful experiences and partnerships in Chicago neighborhoods.
The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) has welcomed over 190 million visitors since opening in 1933. Through immersive exhibits, award-winning education programs and live onsite science, MSI reaches across Chicago and around the world. Interactive, hands-on experiences spark wonder and curiosity while cultivating a lifelong appreciation for science and technology.
Located on the South Side of Chicago, MSI is part of an incredible collection of over 30 neighborhoods rich in artistic, scientific and cultural pride. MSI recognizes that talent and potential exist in all zip codes across the city, but not all resources and opportunities are equally distributed. To achieve the museum’s mission, MSI leverages the collective power of the communities it serves.
MSI is seeking to reimagine the ways in which it can be a learner, resource and true partner to the youth and families in Chicago neighborhoods. MSI will spend a year planning and developing its new STEAM Neighborhoods program. Collaborating with communities to co-create STEAM Neighborhoods will leverage insights and relationships from all MSI’s core education programming and focus novel investments into specific Chicago neighborhoods. This work aims to create direct connections among MSI-supported schools, community-based organizations, parks and libraries to develop hyper-local ‘micro-ecosystems’ around STEAM. Neighborhood interest, excitement and need will drive the strategic and operational approaches. With STEAM Neighborhoods, MSI aims to co-create with community stakeholders a model that facilitates the transformation of an entire neighborhood and activates the talent and potential of the youth and families who live there.
Museum located in Astoria, Queens that explores the central technology of the present moment through exhibitions, film screenings, live conversations with artists and filmmakers, and more.
Since opening its doors in 1988, Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) has been at the forefront of creative, emerging digital technologies in the arts, championing a spectrum of contemporary media — from film and television to digital media and video games. Through exhibitions, education programs, screenings, artist commissions, interpretive programs and its own collection of art and artifacts, MoMI examines the moving image as an art form as well as technical innovations in moving image production, both as a catalyst for invention and an application of new formats and technical advances. Located in Queens, the most diverse location in the world, MoMI welcomes 250,000 visitors and 70,000 students annually, as well as a robust online audience.
In June 2024, MoMI will open its doors for a series of free events that bring into conversation mycologists, biologists and neuroscientists alongside light artists, musicians and filmmakers, exploring how the tools of science and cinema can reveal more of the world than is visible to the naked eye.
